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  • Best or Favorite OS for a BBS?

    From xbit@21:4/107 to All on Wed Nov 5 11:08:40 2025
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  • From Exodus@21:1/144 to Xbit on Wed Nov 5 18:57:51 2025
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    DOS or OS/2.

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  • From xbit@21:4/107 to Exodus on Wed Nov 5 16:04:23 2025
    Re: Re: Best or Favorite OS for a BBS?
    By: Exodus to Xbit on Wed Nov 05 2025 06:57 pm

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    DOS or OS/2.

    Always wanted to build an OS/2 BBS back in the day.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to xbit on Thu Nov 6 07:16:44 2025
    xbit wrote to Exodus <=-

    Always wanted to build an OS/2 BBS back in the day.

    On period hardware, OS/2 rocked. Windows wasn't ready to mulitask DOS
    cleanly for a long time. I ran a 486 with OS/2, and ran Maximus for DOS
    in a DOS window. Worked pretty well - but then when I moved to all OS/2
    binaries, I could do whatever I wanted on the system while the BBS was
    running and I could barely tell it was there.



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  • From xbit@21:4/107 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Nov 6 07:35:57 2025
    Re: Re: Best or Favorite OS for a BBS?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to xbit on Thu Nov 06 2025 07:16 am

    Always wanted to build an OS/2 BBS back in the day.
    On period hardware, OS/2 rocked. Windows wasn't ready to mulitask DOS cleanly for a long time. I ran a 486 with OS/2, and ran Maximus for DOS in a DOS window. Worked pretty well - but then when I moved to all OS/2 binaries, I could do whatever I wanted on the system while the BBS was running and I could barely tell it was there.

    So awesome. Sounds like a fun retro project... I have a working 486 w/ win95. Perhaps i could switch the HDD an os/2 one :) that said, it also sounds like a lot of work as it would be a new world for me and not sure support is what it once was. https://x-bit.org/info/retro486/
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Nov 6 09:13:32 2025
    Re: Re: Best or Favorite OS for a BBS?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to xbit on Thu Nov 06 2025 07:16 am

    On period hardware, OS/2 rocked. Windows wasn't ready to mulitask DOS cleanly for a long time. I ran a 486 with OS/2, and ran Maximus for DOS in a DOS window. Worked pretty well - but then when I moved to all OS/2 binaries, I could do whatever I wanted on the system while the BBS was running and I could barely tell it was there.

    By the time I first tried OS/2 Warp around 1996, I'd have liked to see OS/2 continue and succeed. However, Windows was already so dominant at that time that it couldn't really be stopped. I thought OS/2 Warp was more stable than Windows 95 and was able to run Windows 3.x and DOS software alongside OS/2 software without a hitch.

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  • From Exodus@21:1/144 to Xbit on Thu Nov 6 13:02:09 2025
    So awesome. Sounds like a fun retro project... I have a working 486 w/ win9 Perhaps i could switch the HDD an os/2 one :) that said, it also sounds lik lot of work as it would be a new world for me and not sure support is what once was. https://x-bit.org/info/retro486/

    Download FULLPACK.ZIP if you are gonna run OS/2 on old hardware. And OSTSR to help DOS programs. FULLPACK.ZIP gives you all the tips and tricks to modify what is needed in the 100000 line config.sys to get the most performance out of it.

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